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  2. Implicate and explicate order - Wikipedia

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    Bohm also used the term unfoldment to characterise processes in which the explicate order becomes relevant (or "relevated"). Bohm likens unfoldment also to the decoding of a television signal to produce a sensible image on a screen. The signal, screen, and television electronics in this analogy represent the implicate order, while the image ...

  3. Naturalism (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    In addition Arthur C. Danto states that naturalism, in recent usage, is a species of philosophical monism according to which whatever exists or happens is natural in the sense of being susceptible to explanation through methods which, although paradigmatically exemplified in the natural sciences, are continuous from domain to domain of objects ...

  4. Wholeness and the Implicate Order - Wikipedia

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    ISBN. 0-203-99515-5. Wholeness and the Implicate Order is a book by theoretical physicist David Bohm. It was originally published in 1980 by Routledge, Great Britain. The book is considered a basic reference for Bohm's concepts of undivided wholeness and of implicate and explicate orders, as well as of Bohm's rheomode - an experimental language ...

  5. Natural philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Natural philosophy or philosophy of nature (from Latin philosophia naturalis) is the philosophical study of physics, that is, nature and the physical universe. It was dominant before the development of modern science . From the ancient world (at least since Aristotle) until the 19th century, natural philosophy was the common term for the study ...

  6. Italian philosophy - Wikipedia

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    It emphasizes independence and it views children as naturally eager for knowledge and capable of initiating learning in a sufficiently supportive and well-prepared learning environment. The underlying philosophy can be viewed as stemming from Unfoldment Theory. It discourages some conventional measures of achievement, such as grades and tests.

  7. Natural environment - Wikipedia

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    Universal natural resources and physical phenomena that lack clear-cut boundaries, such as air, water, and climate, as well as energy, radiation, electric charge, and magnetism, not originating from civilized human actions. In contrast to the natural environment is the built environment.

  8. Natural kind - Wikipedia

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    Natural kind. " Natural kind " is an intellectual grouping, or categorizing of things, in a manner that is reflective of the actual world and not just human interests. [1] Some treat it as a classification identifying some structure of truth and reality that exists whether or not humans recognize it.

  9. Transcendentals - Wikipedia

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    The transcendentals ( Latin: transcendentalia, from transcendere "to exceed") are "properties of being ", nowadays commonly considered to be truth, unity (oneness), beauty, and goodness. [citation needed] The conceptual idea arose from medieval scholasticism, namely Aquinas but originated with Plato, Augustine, and Aristotle in the West.